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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.midplains.net!gw2.att.com!nntpa!not-for-mail From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: What version of Perl and ncurses will be in 2.1? Message-ID: <DG77Fx.G5u@nntpa.cb.att.com> Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: inuxs.inh.att.com Organization: AT&T References: <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> <JKH.95Oct9041127@time.cdrom.com> <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:26:20 GMT Lines: 35 In article <45bgjv$evq@mordred.gatech.edu>, Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu> wrote: >| In article <4514di$ci5@Apollo.dmacc.cc.ia.us> cfr@dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) writes: >| As stated in the subject line, what versions of Perl and ncurses will >| be in the FreeBSD 2.1 release? >| >| 4.036 and 1.8.6, respectively. > >This seems surprising. Perl 5.001m and ncurses-1.9.4 have >been out for some time now. I noticed that several of the >commercial Linux distributions are now carrying perl-5.001m, >so I would have expected the same with FreeBSD-2.1. > The 2.1 FreeBSD release is a stability release and has had changes made only for bugfixes and very minor feature improvements since 2.0.5. Since FreeBSD is being used on very heavily loaded systems in commercial environnments, sometimes we will err on the conservative side for stability (on "stability" releases.) We have had reports that ncurses-1.9.4 is not the version to incorporate, and will probably look at it again when it is updated. (FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux has similar situations when a given release or version is not THE one to use.) Much new stuff is being added to FreeBSD V2.2 -- keeping it ahead in the performance arena, and new features are also being added, like a fully functional read/write ext2fs, probably perl-5 and many many other major things. Note that there has been a parallel development of FreeBSD V2.2 and FreeBSD V2.1 for a while now, so the small feature delta does not imply stagnation -- in fact just the opposite. We now have both very stable and developmental systems being actively worked on!!!! John dyson@freebsd.org